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Posted At : March 20, 2009 11:50 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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Our antiquated regulatory infrastructure is making headlines again. You'd think fiscal watchdogs would raise a hue and cry about casino regulators having to fly up and down the state every time there's a meeting. Why all the travel? Because previous and current administrations are too damn cheap to invest in more and better teleconferencing equipment. It's a classic example of spending a dollar in order to save a penny.
Nevada is hemmorhaging casino and resort revenue to competing states, so what does Gov. Jim Gibbons propose to do but disembowel the Commission on Tourism. 'Cause if there's one thing Nevada doesn't need it's more of those pesky tourists, right? Good riddance to the varmints!
This shortsighted thriftiness is playing to predictably bad reviews in the Legislature. Even Midnight Jim's own lieutenant governor disses the notion, but the best sound bite comes from Assemblyman Marcus Conklin (D-Las Vegas). He took the commission's fill-in director to task, saying, "Your budget -- and I realize it's not your fault -- lacks vision and general business understanding. Those customers that would traditionally come to Vegas are going to be marketed to aggressively by everyone else, while we're sitting here playing tiddlywinks because we don't understand what's going on in the market."
Call that a proxy smackdown. "Lacks vision and general business understanding ... playing tiddlywinks" -- he's talking about you, Jim.
In defense of Gibbons on another matter, his accidental (?) defunding of the Nevada Film Office doesn't seem like such a big deal. State government isn't -- and hasn't -- done squat to incentivize film production here, content to see it snapped up by neighboring states (and Canada). Until the Silver State is going to do more than pay lip service to the silver screen, why bother pretending otherwise?
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